turretless tank
A tank or tank-like armored military vehicle featuring a casemate (turretless) design, with the main gun mounted directly within the hull of the vehicle instead of in a rotating turret.
Advantages of such designs were that they were mechanically simpler than turreted designs, less costly to produce, lighter in weight, and lower in profile. Due to taking up less weight in the design, heavier armor and/or armaments could be added onto the chassis. A primary disadvantage to this design was that the main weapon was affixed with a limited fire arc in the front and thus required the entire vehicle rotating to be able to target things outside this arc.
Examples
List of Real Life Vehicles
WWII - German
- Jagdpanther (Tank Destroyer)
- Jagdpanzer 38(t) - "Hetzer" (Tank Destroyer)
- Jagdtiger (Tank Destroyer)
- Sturmgeschutz III (Assault Gun/Tank Destroyer)
- Sturmgeschutz IV (Assault Gun/Tank Destroyer)
- Sturmtiger (Assault Gun)
WWII - Russian
- SU-85 (Tank Destroyer)
- SU-100 (Tank Destroyer)
- ISU-122 (Assault Gun/Self-Propelled Gun/Tank Destroyer)
- ISU-152 (Assault Gun/Self-Propelled Gun/Tank Destroyer)
Post-WWII - Swedish
- Strv 103 / "S-Tank" (Main Battle Tank)